Justice In The Young Elites

As humanity grows and develops, many incidents concerning injustice come to life. Yet the metaphorical scales of morality are tipped when the law provides inadequate solutions to the problem, enabling others to seek out the highest form of justice for themselves. Such actions allow for one to realize just how far their understanding of justice goes as well as how determined they are to pull through. In The Young Elites, Adelina Amouteru’s understanding of justice becomes distorted as the book progresses, illustrating how a sense of personal authority is quickly warped and shaped into the act of revenge. Adelina Amouteru sense of justice had always been questionable, but becomes even more so towards the end of the book. For starters, her childhood was anything but a nice one. The majority of her family was struck by a deadly plague called the “Blood Fever”, which causes her mother to die. Also, Adelina had to endure the physical, mental, and verbal abuse that her father dealt out to her only because she is seen as flawed due to the scars that the Blood Fever left her. On top of all that, Adelina lived in the shadow of her sister, Violetta, who is seen

A lot of the events she had gone through made way for “something deep and bitter” to settle in her heart (77), as well as the need to make everyone “cower at [her] feet and...make them bleed,” (76) are used as her own personal momentum towards her search for justice and gratification. Additionally, Adelina’s unusually high dependence on others had herself hit her ultimate low, causing her to internally “[spiral] downward, falling to a place where [she] can no longer pull [herself ]back up,” when discovering that the ones she loved didn’t reciprocate the same feelings. With that being said, Adelina’s search for justice could be represented as a search of finding oneself, albeit a long and dangerous